Great blog and I can totally relate… Good luck!

louise welch

I’ve been hearing about all the challenges of self-promoting your own book, and how you really need to sell yourself as well as your book.

I’m a 46 year old independent woman whom raised three children by herself. I am used to promoting others, whilst sacrificing just about everything that remotely had to do with “self”. Now that my children are grown I can focus on me, myself, and I. That’s a hard pill to swallow on most days.

I was raised to believe that “children are to be seen, and not heard.” Therefore my feelings usually stayed within, not vocalized, or else I would get the belt for talking back. I got stuck in that rut; even when I was raising my children I wanted to keep my feelings to myself. My positive feelings were an open book and I shared them freely, but my pains, ills and stresses…

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